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Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried will likely plead not guilty to fraud and other charges at a January 3 hearing; SBF returns to Twitter to deny he moved Alameda funds — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is likely to plead not guilty to eight counts of fraud at a hearing next week, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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The Bahamas' Securities Commission says it is holding FTX assets worth $3.5B temporarily and plans to deliver them to customers and creditors who own them — The Securities Commission of the Bahamas said on Thursday that it is holding FTX assets worth $3.5 billion based on market pricing …
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| Nathan Crooks / The Block: |
FTX says it would seek the return of its digital assets held by the Bahamas, claiming the value was ~$296M when transferred on November 12 and is now ~$167M — - FTX Trading and its affiliated debtors said Friday that they would seek the return of crypto held by the Securities Commission …
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Sources detail Elon Musk's Twitter cost-cutting measures, including closing a data center, reducing training for new staff, and canceling janitorial services — Elon Musk has reduced the company to a bare-bones operation, and employees are under a “zero-based budgeting” mandate to justify any spending.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Crypto created a toy financial system and had a toy financial crisis; in order to work in the long run, crypto must prove its real usefulness outside of finance — On Oct. 25, Bloomberg Businessweek published “The Crypto Story,” a cover-to-cover issue of the magazine that I wrote about what crypto is and what it all might mean.
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| Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: |
Italy's parliament approves a 26% tax on gains of €2,000+ from crypto trading per tax period and offers incentives for declaring crypto profits for tax purposes — Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's new bill also includes an incentive for those declaring crypto for tax purposes.
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| Brian Merchant / The Atlantic: |
Meta's dramatic implosion, Elon Musk's Twitter train wreck, and Amazon's labor uprising show that 2022 was not just a disastrous year, but a reckoning for tech — The companies that define our digital lives have hit a wall. — The dramatic, multidimensional implosion of Meta …
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| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Tim Wu, who helped shape Joe Biden's antitrust agenda, plans to leave his adviser role on January 4 and return to teaching antitrust law at Columbia Law School — Adviser Tim Wu, who helped to shape President Joe Biden's antitrust agenda, will leave his position Jan. 4, the White House said Friday.
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Google changes its appeals process for CSAM-flagged accounts; content deemed exploitative will still be removed and reported but users can plead their innocence — People who upload images of children that Google flags as potentially illegal will be able to provide more context to appeal bans.| Washington Post: |
Sources: Meta is still working on a wrist wearable device and wants to move its hardware manufacturing out of China but is struggling to find key suppliers — The company needs China's factories as it pushes to become a hardware producer — SAN FRANCISCO — For more than a year … | Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Report: AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and others are slashing their orders with TSMC, with the contract manufacturer's Q1 2023 sales projected to decrease by 15% QoQ — Large customers revise orders to TSMC due to the economy slowdown. — Being the world's No. 1 foundry, TSMC was almost immune … | Ryan Broderick / Polygon: |
A look at the disastrous 2022 for NFT-based games, after interest from EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, Niantic, and others, as the community grew more niche and scam-filled — The NFT gaming community only grew more niche and scam-filled in 2022 — Less than 12 months ago, it felt as if 2022 …
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